What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.